Daniel Ogassian - Concrete Tiles

Daniel Ogassian is a Los Angeles-based Artisan turned Industrial Designer. His work, which he began developing after obtaining his MFA and refining his prototyping at Art Center College of Design, spans free-standing furniture, ceramic and concrete tiles, outsized surfaces, and outdoor ‘vessels’ for plants and water features.

Daniel begins with a hierarchy, which works backward from the concepts of many of his contemporaries. Daniel has long held minimalism not as a movement but RATHER “simple decoration with spare use of line and material choices…cleanly ornate design”. Still, Daniel maintains a humble disregard of function initially and designs to decoration, not form.

“Ornamentation…preciousness – is at the very nucleus of design. It is the DNA of the form, it is the origin, so that is where you start”. To Daniel, the DNA is where he finds the life, the activity, the movement.

THANK YOU to my fellow bloggers!

Creativity and beauty are such essential nourishment for the soul. With so many of us out there "blogging", hopefully inspiring each other as well, I adore the fact that there are so many blogs to love, and how each of them is so different from the next and has such individual style!

So, in that spirit, I would like to thank all the bloggers out there, because this blog couldn't exist without yours!